Baby Moses

“Miriam, we will have to hide our baby.”
“Why, Mummy?” Miriam asked.
“The king says he will kill every baby boy who is
an Israelite,” the mother answered. “We live in Egypt but our fathers came from a far away land many years ago.”
“Come now and help me hide our lovely baby. We must save him from the angry king. God said I must hide him.

They gathered reeds that grew beside the river and wove a strong basket. They floated it on the river among the reeds. It was so thick that the water could not get in the basket. Mother put the baby in the basket and hid it among the reeds.
“Miriam, please stay here and watch over our baby.”
Miriam stayed nearby and looked after her baby brother.

One day the daughter of the king came to swim in the river. She found the basket with the baby in it.
“Come and see!” she called to her maids. “ There’s a little baby in the basket. I want to take him home and have him for my own. I’ll call him Moses.”

Miriam came out from the reeds and spoke to the princess. “Would you like me to get a nurse for him?” she asked.

She ran home to get her mother. The princess was glad to have a nurse for Moses and she went to the palace to care for her baby.

God was pleased. He wanted Moses to live because He had a special plan for his live.